The Making of Cassie Clearwater

Cumbria-born Cassie has been in and out of foster-homes since childhood. A sensitive and creative teenager, she’s survived by living in her imagination and writing stories. Welcomed at last into a safe and stable foster-home in the Lake District, Cassie discovers that her mother, Stella, a troubled and angry woman with a story of her own to tell, is determined to have her back. As events bring Stella and Cassie together, will the desperate mother and her daughter – now a budding writer – survive this risky reunion?

“Jill Clough’s evocative, sensitively written novel shows how hard both love and forgiveness are to come by. Think Jodi Picoult meets Abigail Dean, set in Cumbria: redemptive, heartbreaking and honest.” Vicky Adams, Writer and Researcher.